| Summary: | One of the engineers noticed fairty early on in proceedings that it syd turned left when walked out of studio he was going to the canteen and would Steventually return and resume the session. But it he turned right it was safe to assume he wouldn't be back on the fourth night Syd turned and right one last time and didn't come back again Ever.
By February 1972, it was effectively all over for Syd Barrett, founder member and guiding creative force behind the original Pink Floyd. In the summer of 2006 he died at the age of sixty, a remote and sensitive individual whose psychedelic footprints left a trail back to the mid-sixties and the height of the London underground.
With exceptional style, Rob Chapman dismantles the myth of Loony Syd the Acid Casualty and reveals a young man whose psychedelic parameters expanded too fast, too soon, as his early success with the album The Piper at the Gates of Dawn Shocked him into a frenetic pop world he was not yet ready for - and perhaps never even wanted. Maybe, just maybe, Syd was not cut out for the rock ǹ' roll long haul; maybe, like a comet, he was destined to burn bright and leave a long train.
This book is a gateway to a vision of one man's Arcadia, an exploration of a genius songwriter and artist whose musical influence resoanted through punk, post-punk and the artier end of Britpop. Including for the first time extensive interviews with the Barrett family, and with reference to his letters, juvenilia and work as an artist, syd Barrett is, finally, the book this most extraordinary of English eccentrics deserves. --Book Jacket.
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